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multiplying glass

noun

Definitions

  1. A glass with a number of facets, causing an object to appear multiplied many times.

    • It may have one side, which must be convex, ground into little facets, like those of some jewels, while the other side is plain. Children know it by the name of a multiplying glass […]
    • When I look at a candle through a multiplying glass, I seem to see a dozen candles instead of one […]

  2. A magnifying glass.

    • 1631, Ben Jonson, The New Inn, London: Thomas Alchorne, Act I, Scene 1, poring through a multiplying glasse, / Vpon a captiu’d crab-louse, or a cheese-mite / To be dissected, as the sports of nature, / With a neat Spanish needle

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for multiplying glass. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA